Introduction to Table of Contents

The ecosystem of which striped bass are a part is dynamic and constantly changing primarily due to the seasonal migrations of many of the predators and prey that make up a complex food web.

Lesson plans are constantly being developed and added to this site by students and teachers who have conducted research at the MBL. These lesson plans provide material that can be added to curricula.

To aid in the incorporation of material into the classroom setting, the categories and subcategories in the Table of Contents that follow are similar to those present in the 2016 Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Standards. A subcategory in yellow has a lesson plan available. Please check the Table of Contents frequently to determine when new Lesson Plans are added. If you have a specific need for your class or you have a Lesson Plan you would like to contribute, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Designing Experiments and Analyzing Data

Table of Contents

Interrelationships: Organisms,Populations Environment (LS,PS,ESS) — Biotic and abiotic factors affecting biodiversity and ecosystem health

• Factors that affect ecosystem carrying capacity
  • Biotic
    • Feeding relationships
      
    • Symbiosis
    • Competition
    • Disease
    • Human impacts
      • Commercial Fishing
    • Pollution
      • Nano- Microplastics
      • PCB Pollution
• Abiotic Availability of resources
  • Climate and climate change
  • Water conditions
  • Weather conditions
• Maximum sustainable yield and aquaculture
  • The Controversy of Aquaculture

Engineering/Technology Science (ETS, PS)

• Underwater ROV Engineering
  • ROV design and water pressure
  • Basic electrical theory DC motors
  • Controller design/writing computer code
• Robotic fish
  • Bouyancy
• Tagging Data
• Tagging Technology
  • External tags
  • PIT tags
  • Acoustic tags
  • GPS tagging
• Non-invasive identification
  • Aberrant stripe patterns
• Underwater Photography/Videography

Interdisciplinary Studies

• Math Informs Biology

Links

Science Functioning of Organisms

Anatomy and Classification

StripedBassMagic.org – Anatomy of Striped Bass

Behavior

Life Cycles

StripedBassMagic.org – Life Cycle & History of Striped Bass Lesson Plan

Neuroscience

Physiology

Respiration

StripedBassMagic.org – Countercurrent Exchange of Oxygen Across Fish Gills

Osmoregulation and Ion Balance

StripedBassMagic.org – Osmoregulation and Ion Balance of a Euryhaline Fish

Sensory Systems

Magnetoreception

StripedBassMagic.org – Magnetoreception

Sonar/Echolocation

StripedBassMagic.org – Sonar/Echolocation

Heredity: Inheritance, Variation in Traits (LS)

StripedBassMagic.org – Human Circadian Rhythms and Fish Migration

StripedBassMagic.org – Heredity: Inheritance, Variation in Traits (LS)

Interrelationships: Organisms, Populations, Environment: Seasonal Patterns of Change

Food Webs

StripedBassMagic.org – Explore the Lives of Striped Bass Through a Food Web

Diversity

Habitat Use

StripedBassMagic.org – Life Cycle & History of Striped Bass Lesson Plan

Marine Microbes

Plankton

Habitat

Migration

StripedBassMagic.org – Striped Bass: What Type of Water Do They Live In and Why Do They Migrate?
StripedBassMagic.org – Migration Lesson Plan
StripedBassMagic.org – Mapping Striped Bass Migration
StripedBassMagic.org – Environmental Trigger(s) for Striped Bass Migration

Predator-Prey Interrelationships

StripedBassMagic.org – Predator & Prey Relationships Lesson Plan

Salinity and the Distribution of Organisms

Salinity and Striper Prey

Spawning

StripedBassMagic.org – Life Cycle & History of Striped Bass Lesson Plan

Interrelationships: Organisms, Populations, Environment: Biotic and abiotic factors affecting biodiversity and ecosystem health

Factors that affect ecosystem carrying capacity

Biotic

Feeding Relationships

Symbiosis

Competition

Disease

Human Impacts

StripedBassMagic.org – Life of a Fisher Board Game
StripedBassMagic.org – Commercial Fishing Board Game

Pollution

StripedBassMagic.org – Pollution Lesson Plan
StripedBassMagic.org – PCB Pollution

Abiotic

Availability of Resources

Climate & Climate Change

StripedBassMagic.org – Climate and Climate Change Lesson Plan

Water Conditions

Weather Conditions

Maximum Sustainable Yield and Aquaculture

StripedBassMagic.org – The Controversy of Aquaculture

Engineering/Technology Science

Underwater ROV engineering

ROV design and physics principles

Basic electrical theory and DC motors

Controller design/writing computer code

StripedBassMagic.org – ROV Controller Design

Robotic Fish

Buoyancy

Tagging Data

Tagging Technology

External Tags

StripedBassMagic.org – Techniques Used in Placing External and Acoustic Tags to Striped Bass
StripedBassMagic.org – Techniques Used in Placing External and PIT Tags to Striped Bass

PIT Tags

StripedBassMagic.org – Techniques Used in Placing External and PIT Tags to Striped Bass

Acoustic Tags

StripedBassMagic.org – Techniques Used in Placing External and Acoustic Tags to Striped Bass

GPS Tagging

Non-Invasive Identification

StripedBassMagic.org – Non-Invasive Method to Identify Individual Striped Bass Using Aberrations in Their Stripe Patterns

Underwater Photography/Videography

Interdisciplinary Studies

StripedBassMagic.org – Math Informs Biology